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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book was mostly researched and written during our continuing tenure as associ-
ate fellows of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. We are immensely grateful to the Institute, its
leadership, fellows and staff for the stimulating and convivial ambience that we have
enjoyed there, as well as funding for the publication costs.
We owe heartfelt thanks to Hurst Publishers, and in particular Alasdair Craig,
Michael Dwyer, Jon de Peyer, Tim Page, Lara Weisweiller-Wu, Daisy Leitch,
Kathleen May, and Alison Alexanian, for their interest, enthusiasm and patience in
steering us through the publication process. Our gratitude is also due for the invalu-
able recognition and head start that we were granted by the editors of the scholarly
journals and edited volumes where the papers that are partly incorporated into the
present text (and are listed in the bibliography) first appeared.
The reservations expressed in our foreword about exclusive reliance on archival
sources detract nothing from the essential input of this material. For their indispens-
able support and advice, we are much indebted to innumerable staff members at the
Israel State Archive, Israel National Library, Israel Intelligence Heritage Centre, US
National Archives and Records Administration, Lyndon B. Johnson Library, UK
National Archive, Churchill Archive Centre at Cambridge University, and the
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College, London. No less impor-
tant were the online and published resources of the Cold War International History
Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center and of the National Security Archive,
George Washington University.
Several Internet resources were instrumental for reviewing contemporary media
coverage of the events. Most of the Israeli press items were located through the
Historical Jewish Press Project of the Israel National Library and Tel Aviv University.
The frequent quotes from otherwise obscure North American local newspapers, as
sources for news agencies and syndicates, were mostly gathered from Thomas
M. Tryniski’s outstanding website fultonhistory.com and from the now-defunct
search facility of Google News Archive.
Our personal thanks go to the following individuals for their contributions to this
book in more ways than can be detailed here (those marked are, sadly, deceased):
Yael Artzi, Me’ir Amit, *Yo’el Ben-Porat, Dave Brog, Mark Clark, Craig Daigle, Lynn